Sheave

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This word is acceptable for play in the US & UK dictionaries that are being used in the following games:

The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
  • v. To collect and bind into a sheaf.
  • n. A wheel or disk with a grooved rim, especially one used as a pulley.
  • Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License
  • n. A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
  • v. to gather and bind into a sheaf
  • the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English
  • n. A wheel having a groove in the rim for a rope to work in, and set in a block, mast, or the like; the wheel of a pulley.
  • v. To gather and bind into a sheaf or sheaves; hence, to collect.
  • The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
  • To bring together into sheaves; collect into a sheaf or into sheaves.
  • n. A slice, as of bread; a cut.
  • n. A grooved wheel in a block, mast, yard, etc., on which a rope works; the wheel of a pulley; a shiver. See cut under block.
  • n. A sliding scutcheon for covering a keyhole.
  • n. The grooved wheel or disk on which a sliding door is carried upon a rail or track.
  • n. The disk or wheel over which a window-rope or -chain passes to the sash-weight.
  • n. The circular disk or body of an eccentric such as is used to operate the valves of steam-engines.
  • Word Usage
    "The front trolley-wheel, loose from long wear, had jumped the cable, and the cable was now jammed tightly between the wheel and the sheave-block."
    Verb Form
    sheaved    sheaves    sheaving   
    Cross Reference
    Synonym
    Words with the same meaning
    sheaf   
    Same Context
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